<p><pre><code> Doc Searls - One of the early bloggers, editor of the Linux Journal, pushing for a better internet
Dave Winer - one of the creators of RSS, sometimes has interesting thoughts about the subject
Sabine Hossenfelder, Angela Collier - Sane critiques of the world of physics
Ben Krasnow (Applied Science) - Doing cool shit with the stuff others invent
Jeff Geerling - at the intersection of technology and radio
Kevlin Henney - really strong wisdon about programming, convinced me that immutable data was actually a useful idea
Sam Zeloof and Atomic Semi - He made chips in his parents garage, now he's working on the equivalent of a 3d printer for ASICs.
Justine Tunney - Actually making full use of the machines we all have after decades of Moore's law.
George Hotz - helping to impedance match compute hardware with applications of deep learning. (TinyGrad) Absolutely hates systolic arrays, he's mostly right. Oh... and the only person offering working mostly self driving for a Tesla (and other cars)
Jason Scott - Archivist, story teller
Grant Sanderson - 3 Blue 1 Brown, telling stories about math, and making tools to help visualize them
Eric Weinstein - Strongly held opinions, most of them correct, novel insights about the world like the Embedded Growth Obligation that is deranging our institutions.
CGP Grey - Famous Recluse, awesome explainer. I'm still waiting for the next episode of Hello Internet.
Edward Snowden - Traitor or Hero, the man who told us a bit about what the deep state is up to
John Robb - Deep thinker about the future of society and the internet on the large scale. He introduced me to the OODA loop, etc.
Dylan Beattie - Story teller, inventor of the RockStar programming language, convinced me that Unicode is a good idea after all
Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory at Ohio State - Joining things together that are otherwise impossible, only publishes every few years
Jeri Ellsworth - Hacker, made transistors by hand
John Plant / Primitive Technology - Researching the foundations of our world by doing, watch his channel with the subtitles on... he starts with a sharp rock, and works his way up through buildings with tile roofs, and iron smelting
Ryan McBeth, Ward Carroll - Two (ex) military guys who fill in a lot of details about how the world *really* works.
Peter Zeihan, Robert Morris / @RobboLaw, Vlad Vexler - Geopolitical analysis, they kind of balance each other out
Barry Mehler / MoreBadNews, Nate Hagens - Covering the eventual collapse of our world, ecosystem, etc.
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My youtube follow list is public: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@ka9dgx/subscriptions</a><p>There are many more, but those are the ones I think are worth a peek to someone else.